Oversight of the National Bureau of Standards: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, October 25, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 377 pages |
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Page 173 - The custody, maintenance, and development of the national standards of measurement, and the provision of means and methods for making measurements consistent with those standards, including the comparison of standards used in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with the standards adopted or recognized by the Government.
Page 85 - physical constants and properties of materials when such data are of great importance to scientific or manufacturing interests and are not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy elsewhere." In using this criterion as the sole basis for accepting other agency work, the program manager should satisfy
Page 84 - standards used in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with the standards adopted or recognized by the Government." For the purpose of this criterion, national standards of measurement shall be those objectives covered by: (1) Budget Activity:
Page 178 - The National Bureau of Standards shall give particular attention to the evaluation of all promising energy-related inventions, particularly those submitted by individual inventors and small companies for the purpose of obtaining direct grants from the Administrator. The National Bureau of Standards is authorized to promulgate regulations in the furtherance of this section.
Page 315 - services leading to accurate and uniform physical measurements throughout the Nation's scientific community, industry, and commerce. The Institute consists of a Center for Radiation Research, an Office of Measurement Services and the following divisions: Applied Mathematics
Page 200 - and methods for making measurement consistent with those standards, including the comparison of standards used in scientific investigations, engineering, manufacturing, commerce, and educational institutions with the standards adopted or recognised by the Government.*
Page 183 - of the data banks, automated data processing programs, and information systems of governmental, .... to determine the standards and procedures in force for protection of personal information .... (C) examine standards and criteria governing programs, policies, and practices relating to the collection, soliciting, processing, use, access, integration, dissemination, and transmission of personal information.
Page 173 - The determination of physical constants and properties of materials when such data are of great importance to scientific or manufacturing interests and are not to be obtained of sufficient accuracy elsewhere.
Page 37 - attention to the evaluation of all promising energy-related inventions, particularly those submitted by individual inventors and small companies for the purpose of obtaining direct grants from the Administrator. The National Bureau of Standards is authorized to promulgate regulations in the furtherance of this section.
Page 35 - Secretary of Commerce is authorized: (1) to provide agencies, and the Administrator of General Services . . . with scientific and technological advisory services relating to automatic data processing and related systems, (2) to make appropriate recommendations to the President relating to the establishment of uniform Federal automatic data processing standards.